Living the Aging Life

If this were any ordinary year,

our Kati would choose us a book.

We’d read it with a thoughtful eye,

give the plot a careful look.

We’d study and we’d be prepared

to say what we thought about it.

If we didn’t like it, we’d speak up!

There’d be no doubt about it!

But this is not an ordinary year.

These times are filled with trouble.

We stay alive, we try to survive,

each in our COVID bubble.

So we look ahead to the books we’ll read

and the other things we’ll do,

and we’ll plan our next discussions

for the Year of Twenty-Two.

It’s not a gourmet breakfast

nor a gastronomic treat,

but in less than two short minutes

it is fixed and ready to eat.

Night comes soft with an evening song

to end this troubled day.

It brings a quiet lullaby

to sooth the ills away.

OMG! I saw a school bus

heading down the Boulevard!

I thought that all our local schools

were still sealed up and barred.

Oh, won’t it be quite wonderful

when children go to school!

…when kids can play outside again

and the Virus doesn’t rule…..

I used to write my little odes

with a quill on old papyrus.

But I’ve found if takes a fast PC

just to get me through this virus.

If this were any ordinary year,

our Kati would choose us a book.

We’d read it with a thoughtful eye,

give the plot a careful look.

We’d study and we’d be prepared

to say what we thought about it.

If we didn’t like it, we’d speak up!

There’d be no doubt about it!

But this is not an ordinary year.

These times are filled with trouble.

We stay alive, we try to survive,

each in our COVID bubble.

So we look ahead to the books we’ll read

and the other things we’ll do,

and we’ll plan our next discussions

for the Year of Twenty-Two.